Diana Martínez-Montes

Diana Laura is a PhD candidate in History. Her research examines the mass criminalization of migrant New Yorkers and multiethnoracial migrant protest in New York City since the 1980s. She also founded and curates The Bushwick Archive, a Brooklyn-based digital community archive that documents testimonies of dispossession, place-making, and working-class urbanism in her home city. 

 

At Yale, Diana Laura co-leads the Public Humanities Working Group. She is also a recipient of the Prize Teaching Fellowship, considered one of the university’s most prestigious honors bestowed upon graduate students. 

 

Prior to pursuing a PhD, Diana Laura worked in the crimmigration legal field where she advocated for incarcerated and migrant New Yorkers in post-conviction criminal proceedings. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in History and Spanish from Swarthmore College.